during install, ubiquity downloads english language files that it doesn't need

[Steve Beattie]

Binary package hint: ubiquity

During an entirely en_US installation, while configuring the locale, ubiquity downloads the following additional packages:

$ ls -l /target/var/cache/apt/archives/*.deb
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 14908790 2009-04-28 18:05 /target/var/cache/apt/archives/gimp-help-common_2.4.1-2_all.deb
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 877302 2009-04-28 18:05 /target/var/cache/apt/archives/gimp-help-en_2.4.1-2_all.deb
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 6221610 2009-10-12 09:15 /target/var/cache/apt/archives/openoffice.org-help-en-gb_1%3a3.1.1-4ubuntu1_all.deb
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 213798 2009-10-12 09:15 /target/var/cache/apt/archives/openoffice.org-l10n-common_1%3a3.1.1-4ubuntu1_all.deb
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1921516 2009-10-12 09:15 /target/var/cache/apt/archives/openoffice.org-l10n-en-gb_1%3a3.1.1-4ubuntu1_all.deb
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 9158336 2009-10-12 09:15 /target/var/cache/apt/archives/openoffice.org-l10n-en-za_1%3a3.1.1-4ubuntu1_all.deb

Of those, openoffice.org-help-en-gb_1%3a3.1.1-4ubuntu1_all.deb, openoffice.org-l10n-en-gb_1%3a3.1.1-4ubuntu1_all.deb, and openoffice.org-l10n-en-za_1%3a3.1.1-4ubuntu1_all.deb are not likely to be useful in an en_US install.

It was my understanding that english language installs didn't require any additional language downloads.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
Date: Tue Oct 27 19:56:58 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
LiveMediaBuild: Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Release amd64 (20091027)
Package: ubiquity 2.0.6
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-14.48-generic
SourcePackage: ubiquity
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-14-generic x86_64

[Marcus Tomlinson (marcustomlinson)]

This release of Ubuntu is no longer receiving maintenance updates. If this is still an issue on a maintained version of Ubuntu please let us know.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

[Expired for ubiquity (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]